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Buick ran a "Pinboard to Dashboard" promotion that encouraged Pinterest users to create interior design inspirations for the 2013 Encore luxury car. The automotive company invited ten of the most influential fashion, design and food bloggers to participate in the promo and create their inspiration board. The promotion is part of the company's efforts to reach out to a younger target market and show that the brand can use social media and have fun with it.

But perhaps more importantly, the company this week is delivering what it's best known for - deals. Ideeli has partnered with Carmen MarValvo, BCBG Max Azria, Nicole Miller, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Betsey Johnson, and other well-known fashion shops to pitch exclusive Fashion Week-focused offers from those designers. Manela added, "The fact that now…we can offer customers not only a strong lineup of [Fashion Week] featured designer sale events, but also exclusive on-site interviews and insight from designers themselves can be directly attributed to the strong relationships [we have] built across the industry."

crowdsourcing designs for people to vote on.  winners will have their design made into a real garment.

Most brands have yet to hop on the bandwagon when it comes to utilizing responsive design on their sites. But Digiday found 10 brands - some major, others not as well known - whose sites are employing responsive design, allowing customers to easily access their content on a range of devices.

Shareable.net's Mary Fallon has a nice article called "Should Products Be Designed for Sharing?" that explores the current state of design for items that are intended for use by multiple people (such as shared-use short-hire bicycles)

Doesn't the same hold true for technology?

virtual fashion museum for his designs

Autodesk is set to announce a batch of new features in its AutoCAD WS software that bring a Facebook-like activity feed into the arcane world of computer-assisted design software.

To celebrate Helsinki as the capital of design, and to illustrate the importance of good design, interactive pop-up cafes were set up all over the city that were complete with tables, music, lighting and more that are remotely controlled by people online.

consumers help design a store's collection. most voted items will go into production 

threadless designs (11 of them) will be used on covers of dell laptops, sold online 7.8

Shopping cart design